Author: Robert Serber

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0520075765

Serber has annotated the lectures he gave to those joining the scientific elite in the wilderness of Los Alamos, NM in 1943. This is LA-1, the Los Alamos primer, here published for the first time. Edited and introduced by Richard Rhodes (The Making of the atomic bomb). All history of science collections must add this central document. Accessible to the lay reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR